Computers Skill in SC3

[Desertpuma]

Maybe but my doped up brain lying in a hospital bed at 3am AZ time was typing at the time.

Most of what I posted I agree with outright. The Expert Class is called the Runner and it is in the Agent X series. If you have it (not talking to the Crafty Crew here obviously), take a look at it as the basis for the "Hacker" class. I would probabaly not even change the name. Much of the skills can easily be transferred over and the feat selection of gaining a "Contacts" Style feat can easily be switched to the following:

It only costs you 20 Rep to purchase or elevate a Contact. If you already have this benefit from some other "game mechanic" (could niot come up with right word), then gain X amount of Rep to purchase Contacts OR gain 2 additionsl Contacts that do not count against your Prizes.

I'd really check out that Agent: X: The Runner. I think it was also in one of the splat books named Shadow Play.

[mathey]

To backtrack a ways, I think one thing the old school cyberpunk gaming approach to hac...decking had that helped keep tensions high was the fact that you could DIE WHILE HACKING. Admittedly, not every corporate facility would have Black IC or whatever the game fiction was for how this could happen, but even if it didn't the decker was pretty vulnerable while jacked in. I seem to recall there being security countermeasures that could also locate your meat body. This being cyberpunk, that meant the evil corps could send hired goons to take care of you in person.

The other way I used to keep the c-punk computer types involved was to have the hackable dingus they were after only on a local network or otherwise physically isolated. That way they'd have to join the infiltrators in sneaking in and getting access. Its perhaps the easiest way to keep Player Characters in one location.

[Agent 333]

The other way I used to keep the c-punk computer types involved was to have the hackable dingus they were after only on a local network or otherwise physically isolated. That way they'd have to join the infiltrators in sneaking in and getting access. Its perhaps the easiest way to keep Player Characters in one location.

This is actually pretty realistic. If you listened to TV, everything is online, but that simply isn't true. There are plenty of things you simply cannot do over the Internet. And there are quite a few things that are hooked to the Internet, but will shut off their connection at the first sign of intrusion. It's not nearly as difficult as the 2.0 Dramatic Conflict made it seem. Of course, there are some systems where going offline is a worse outcome than being hacked, but not many. In real life, hackers only succeed as long as they go undetected. Once security realizes there is an intruder, it's usually over pretty fast.

I think I drifted away from my own point a bit there...

[Desertpuma]

In reference to C-Punk, the Corps could send an electrical pulse strong enough to deepfry the computer & netrunner or they could do a digital lobotomy over the Net or even lock the computer & Netrunner so tbey could not jack out.

Now back to the unhijacked or part of the thread....

I still think it should be based on The Runner from the Agent X series.

[aegis]

In regards to the first two films and all three books (which I've read), she is much more of a Researcher who investigates more through than the computer than you realize. She hacks other people's computers all the time through a program she uses including Blomquist's particularly in the 2nd film. In the 3rd book, she does research while she is laying in a hospital bed, with a gunshot wound to the head, on a computer. The films are excellent and the Swedish director followed the books very very closely.

Do I think the Hacker should be an Expert Class? Absolutely!! It might not carry that title. I forget which supplement for SC2 it was I believe Runner existed as an Expert Class then. It might be worth while to see how things combined.

Agreed with every single word here.